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Posted on 03/03/2021 10:46:37 PM PST by Impala64ssa
As part of an effort to embrace “inclusivity” and “strength,” the Washington Football Team (WFT) has opted to replace their traditional all-female cheerleading squad with a co-ed dance team. WFT senior adviser Petra Pope told USA Today that the club’s decision to forego the traditional cheerleading arrangement is part of an effort to promote a”skillset of being super athletic, which is what we’re really honing in on.” Pope explained, “We want to be more inclusive, so we are going to invite a coed entity (to audition).
We’re able to do more things with the strength of a male, and lifts, so that’s changed a great deal. The inclusivity, strength, and interest of choreography has changed.” Pope stressed that while all of the WFT’s cheerleading contracts have expired, all performers on last year’s squad are welcome to audition for the 2021 dance squad. Another possible motive for the WFT’s sudden change in cheerleading philosophies can be found in the team’s ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit with more than 40 women, including cheerleaders from the 2008 and 2010 squads. As USA Today reports: The organization has also faced claims of sexual harassment, including 40 women described in two Washington Post stories last year. Among them were members of the 2008 and 2010 cheerleading squads, after allegations emerged claiming that club employees created videos of outtakes from calendar shoots when the women weren’t fully dressed. The franchise has denied the existence of videos, which the Post said it had reviewed. Cindy Minniti, an attorney representing the team and owner Daniel Snyder, told USA TODAY Sports the matter ‘has been resolved.’ The team reached a settlement with former cheerleaders in 2020, a person with knowledge of the settlement confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
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Trying to attract 2% more fans?
Everybody here still calls them the Redskins - or just the ‘skins’.
You can take them out of the formal name, but you can’t take them out of the ‘hood.
(And I can’t imagine how compelling this ‘dance team’ is going to be for the fans...)
I think it is a great idea. I do not like watching the Hoes dancing.
‘Hoes’?
I think your attempt at the vernacular should properly be spelled ‘Hos’.
But here, we’ve always called them the ‘First Ladies of Football’.
I would just call them the name appropriate for their city, “The Reds”
GAY.
A dance team?
Okay sure, whatever. I’m not watching anyway.
just dump all this non-essential crap
You are lumping a lot of people together in your designation, and denigrating a big chunk of them.
Isn’t what’s going on with the Redskins pretty much the plot to the original “Producers”?
At the expense of losing what, a third of the fan base it had left just to add a bunch of leotard-wearing fairies for the Woke crowd? This team needs to die. It’s willingly committing suicide, so help it along.
The so-called ‘feminists’ don’t seem to realize that all over the place we see the promotion of men moving into what used to be female’spaces’.
The world is all upside-down-and-turned-around.
I guess all you can do about it is laugh.
in the Olympics, the new promoted skill is not artistry but physical performance....they are emphasizing more athleticism so they have no problem when Sal/Sally he/she gets the nod..
[“We want to be more inclusive, so we are going to invite a coed entity (to audition).]
You know there will be a “transgender” cheerleader some day.
You know it’s coming. Just a matter of time.
It’s all they do (woke). I don’t watch anyways.
They could have the Joffrey Ballet dressed in football uniforms for all I care. I won’t watch the NFL anymore. I could be doing something useful on a Sunday afternoon, like cutting grass, or maybe smoking it.
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heh
For inclusivity, they should call themselves the ‘Washington Team de Football’, otherwise known as ‘WTF’. 😇
The Washington Generals?
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